Sven Appelberg, a farmer, and his wife Christina settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard on 15 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 4.
The 1767 census records that Sven Appelberg came from the Swedish city of Göteborg and his wife came from the German city of Kiel in the region of Holstein.
Johann Heinrich Mehl, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard on 15 July 1766.
In 1787, Daniel Mehl and his family returned to Paulskaya from the Caucasus and moved to Reinhard. In 1790, Johann Mehl moved from Reinhard to Krasnoyar. In 1792, widower Johann Daniel Mehl moved from Reinhard to Jost.
The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Mehl came from the German village of Güstrow in the Mecklenburg region.
Johann Christian Reinhardt and his wife Anna Margaretha settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhardt on 15 July 1766 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1.
The 1767 census notes that Johann Christian Reinhardt is serving as the colony's mayor (Vorsteher). It is after him that the colony received its name.
The 1767 census records tat Johann Christian Reinhardt came from the German village of Weinase in the region of Sachsen (Saxony).
Arvid Behning, son of Pastor Liborius Eduard Herbord Behning & Beata Asmus, was born 7 February 1890 [some sources: 7 December 1890) in Galka. He studied at the University of Leipzig and earned a Ph.D. He was a zoologist and hydrobiologist, studying the ecology of the Volga River. He served as the director of the Volga Biological Station in Saratov from 1912 to 1926.
Dr. Behning was an expert in Crustacea. His name is associated with the Ephemeroptera (mayflies), the genus Behningia Lestage (1930), and the family Behningiidae Tshernova (1938).
Just Simon, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 8 August 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Janson.
Johann Jost Simon, his wife Anna Catrina, and daughter Anna Margreta (born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya (Household No. 53) with a note that they relocated to the Volga German colony of Schaffhausen in 1768.
The birth of Johann Sebastian Böhmer, son of Johann Heinrich Böhmer, is recorded in the parish register of Marienthal near Rockenhausen on 29 May 1727.
The parish register of the Lutheran Church in Mettenheim records that Sebastian Böhmer, a local soldier (alhiesinger Soldat), went with his family to Dietel in 1766. His wife, née Weigand, died in Astrakhan [the region in which the Volga German colonies were located at the time]. Their family includes: (1) Anna Elisabetha, born 3 January 1757; and (2) Carl Wilhelm, born 1763, died in Hamburg.
Johann Bengel, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Maria (age 5½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 13 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Johann Grapp.
Paul Bengel, his wife Anna, and daughter Maria Elisab. (age 6) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Bengel came from the German region of Pfalz.
Johann Philipp Flegler was born 24 July 1704 in Wertheim. He died 28 August 1757 in Wertheim. He married on 24 November 1733 in Wertheim to Maria Barbara Klein, widow of a Mr. Schreck. She was born in 1705. She died 9 May 1749.
The birth of Andreas Flegler, son of Johann Philipp Flegler & Maria Barbara Klein, on 6 September 1734 is recorded on the parish register of Wertheim. He was confirmed there on 3 November 1747.
He married Katharina Margartha Petri.